Kiran Desai would never have won the 2006 Man Booker Prize if Professor Jimmy Riddle hadn’t waited until Christmas to bring out his excellent The Joy Of Pissing.
Published by Cork’s Mercier Press, this lexicon of lavatorial humour has already been hailed by Podge & Rodge who say, “We pissed ourselves when we read this book.”
The holder of a PhD in Pissology from the College of Pissology in Borris In Ossory, the good Professor leaves no trough unsplattered with chapters like ‘Advanced Pissing Skills’, ‘Jimmy Riddle’s Inventions’, ‘Urine, The Elixir Of Life’ and ‘The Piss Slang Poem’.
Looking at the illustration of Professor Riddle below, Hot Press can’t help noting a certain resemblance to Rossa O Snodaigh from Kila…